Rating: PG
Genre:
Mystery
Release Date: 02/07/2006
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DDM2.0
Run Time: 131 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Adult Situations, Questionable for Children
Distributor/Studio: Universal Studios
Condemned as being a "disappointing" and "unworthy"
Alfred Hitchcock effort at the time of its release,
Marnie has since grown in stature; it is still considered a lesser
Hitchcock, but a fascinating one.
Tippi Hedren plays
Marnie, a compulsive thief who cannot stand to be touched by any man. She also goes bonkers over the sight of the color red. Her new boss,
Mark Rutland (
Sean Connery) is intrigued by Marnie -- to such an extent that he blackmails her into marriage when he stumbles onto her breaking into his safe.
Rutland is in his own way as "sick" as his wife because of his fetishist desire to cohabit with a thief. After innumerable plot twists and turns, Marnie is "cured" by a facile but mesmerizing flashback sequence involving her ex-hooker mother (
Louise Latham). Among the critical carps aimed at
Marnie was the complaint that the studio-bound sets -- particularly the waterfront locale where the film ends -- were tacky and artificial; curiously, this seeming "carelessness" adds to the queasy, off-setting mood that Hitchcock endeavored to sustain. Even when the direction seems to falter, the film is buoyed by the driving musical score of
Bernard Herrmann (his last for Hitchcock). Among the supporting actors in
Marnie are
Mariette Hartley as a secretary and
Bruce Dern as a sailor; twelve years later, Dern would star in Hitchcock's final film,
Family Plot.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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A Psychological Melodrama.
Tippi Hedren makes her final collaboration with Alfred Hitchcock in this unrelenting psychological thriller based on the novel by Winston Graham in which she plays the title role of a compulsive thief and liar, who gets caught in the act of robbing a company safe by her current employer (Sean Connery), who later, marries her in an effort to uncover the dark, hidden reasons for her anti-social behavior. Also starring Diane Baker, Martin Gabel, Louise Latham, Alan Napier, Henry Beckman, Bob Sweeney, Mariette Hartley, Milton Selzer, S. John Lauder, Bruce Dern, and Meg Wyllie.
